Star Chamber
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The court of Star Chamber was an English court that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster, from the late 15th century to the mid-17th century, and was composed of privy counsellors and common-law jud
The Star Chamber (late 19th-century engraving)
Starry vault of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, frescoed by Giotto, a common ceiling motif of the period throughout Europe
A document of 1504 showing King Henry VII sitting in the Star Chamber and receiving William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, and clerics associated with Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, as well as the Mayor of London
Engraving of the Star Chamber, published in "Old and new London" in 1873, taken from a drawing made in 1836
John Lilburne
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John Lilburne, also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after the English Civil Wars 1642–1650. He coined the term "freeborn rights", defining them as rights w
John Lilburne, a portrait by the engraver George Glover, 1641
John Lilburne on the pillory at Westminster in, 1638
Lilburne reads from Coke's Institutes at his trial.